Cuadernos de Estudios del Siglo XVIII

Joaquín BENEGASI Y LUJÁN, «Descripción festiva» y «Benegasi contra Benegasi», estudio preliminar, edición y notas de Tania Padilla Aguilera, Zaragoza, Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2023, XXXIX + 184 págs.

2024-01-09T10:54:02+00:00

No abstract.

Elena DEANDA-CAMACHO, «Ofensiva a los oídos piadosos. Obscenidad y censura en la poesía española y novohispana del siglo XVIII», Madrid / Frankfurt an Main, Iberoamericana / Vervuert, 2022, 272 págs. ¶ Premio de la Sociedad Española de Estudios del Siglo XVIII 2023.

2023-12-22T17:55:46+00:00

Sin resumen.

Cristina DÍEZ RODRÍGUEZ, «La ópera en Cádiz: la actividad lírica en los teatros gaditanos desde sus orígenes hasta el reinado de Fernando VII (1761-1833)», Granada, Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2020, 646 págs.

2024-01-17T19:47:41+00:00

No abstract.

Helena ESTABLIER PÉREZ (ed.), «Damas del siglo ilustrado. La escritura de las mujeres españolas en el XVIII. Antología crítica de textos fundamentales», Madrid / Frankfurt an Main, Iberoamericana / Vervuert, 2023, 390 págs.

2024-01-30T17:50:58+00:00

No abstract.

Benito Jerónimo FEIJOO, «Obras completas», tomo IV, «Cartas eruditas y curiosas», III, ed. de Inmaculada Urzainqui, Eduardo San José y Rodrigo Olay, Oviedo, IFESXVIII / Universidad de Oviedo / Ayuntamiento de Oviedo, 2022, 733 págs.

2023-12-19T12:35:07+00:00

Sin resumen.

Guillermo FERNÁNDEZ ORTIZ, «Jovellanos en los archivos: el patrimonio documental al servicio de la nación», Oviedo, Instituto Feijoo de Estudios del Siglo XVIII / Ediciones Trea, 2023, 199 págs.

2024-03-14T16:24:43+00:00

No abstract.

David GARCÍA LÓPEZ y Jorge MAIER ALLENDE (dirs.), «Fijar profundamente en el ánimo. El grabado en la España de la Ilustración y el Liberalismo», Madrid, Museo Casa de la Moneda, 2022, 405 págs.

2024-03-22T15:15:15+00:00

No abstract.

Natalia GONZÁLEZ HERAS, «Habitar en el Madrid del siglo XVIII. Formas de residencia y cultura material entre los servidores de la monarquía», Gijón, Ediciones Trea, 2023, 377 págs.

2024-04-23T15:51:36+00:00

No abstract.

Cayetano María HUARTE RUIZ DE BRIVIESCA, «La Dulcíada. Poema épico en siete cantos», edición crítica de Rafael Bonilla Cerezo, Madrid / Frankfurt an Main, Iberoamericana / Vervuert, 2022, 302 págs.

2024-04-23T18:10:12+00:00

No abstract.

Martín MARTÍNEZ, «Filosofía escéptica», edición, introducción y notas de Jorge García López, Salamanca, Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2022, 508 págs.

2024-02-27T10:10:32+00:00

No abstract.

Elisabeth MENOR NATAL, «Inscripciones medievales latinas en la colección documental de Luis José Velázquez, marqués de Valdeflores (RAH)». Madrid, Guillermo Escolar Editor, 2023, 344 págs.

2024-04-24T10:03:37+00:00

No abstract.

Frédérique MORAND, «El manto y el cálamo. La Hija del Sol y su comunidad en la segunda mitad del XVIII en Cádiz», Sevilla, Caligrama, 2022, 638 págs.

2024-01-29T16:21:31+00:00

No abstract.

Pablo SÁNCHEZ PASCUAL, «Las villas marítimas del Principado de Asturias a finales del Antiguo Régimen (1750-1810)», Gijón, Ediciones Trea, 2023, 880 págs. ¶ Premio Juan Uría Ríu 2022

2024-04-18T08:41:20+00:00

No abstract.

Manuel SUÁREZ RIVERA, «La alhaja más preciosa. Historia de la biblioteca de la Real Universidad de México (1761-1815)», Ciudad de México, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2022, 777 págs.

2023-12-25T14:45:56+00:00

Sin resumen.

Preliminary Note. The Biographical Construction of the Writer in Early Modernity

2024-04-23T10:32:08+00:00

Nota preliminar del Monográfico La construcción biográfica del escritor en la modernidad temprana.

An academic eulogy for Gabriel Álvarez de Toledo in the Real Academia Española (1736)

2024-03-11T09:02:58+00:00

In this work we study the academic eulogy of Gabriel Álvarez de Toledo (Manuel de Villegas Piñateli) for the Real Academia Española in 1736: origin, possible sources, the verifiable data, the rhetorical elaboration and the biographical construction as a Christian scholar. Subsequently, we contrast it with the biographical sketch that Torres Villarroel made for his edition of the poetic works of the Sevillian author in 1744.

Associating with the right Folk. Text and Strategies of Self-Promotion in «Vida» by Torres Villarroel

2023-06-09T11:58:58+00:00

Diego Torres Villarroel’s 1752 edition of Vida was the last version of Quinto trozo that was published under his control. The author had the opportunity to make several additions, including a «Lista segunda de las personas que por su piedad, su devoción o su curiosidad han concurrido a subscribirse en estas obras», which closes this fifth part. All the editions published after the 1752 version disregarded the «Lista», which is an essential part of the text and plays a decisive role in its literary and ideological construction.

"He died, as they say, in the assault": biographical resources in Feijoo's polemical art.

2023-10-07T09:49:18+00:00

This paper studies a not inconsiderable part of the ars polemica -that is, the poetics for literary warfare, which presented a series of resources and writing tools- of the spanish Benedictine writer Benito Jerónimo Feijoo (1676-1764): the biographical construction (and deconstruction). The autobiographical narrative, the insult, the hagiography, the ad hominem attack or the exemplary biography are some of the ways in which polemics cross the account of life in the Benedictine polemicist. The inextricable union of life and polemics will be seen in testimonies such as the one Feijoo himself gives of his friend Martín Martínez, to whom "the villainous retaliation embraced by some of those whose errors Martínez contested [...] made such a deep impression on his noble spirit that it hastened his death".

An «orphaned bird». Moratín's correspondence in the Triennium

2023-07-07T11:34:05+00:00

The study of Moratín's epistolary during one of the most turbulent periods of Spanish life provides abundant details of his personal world, his ideological concerns and his political orientation. Of the almost four hundred letters contained in the documentary treasure, one hundred and twenty belong to the Triennium period and are repeatedly addressed to his friend Juan Antonio Melón, his attorney Manuel García de la Prada and the always unconditional Francisca Muñoz. As a whole, this private correspondence outlines the autobiographical construction and projects the image of an exceptional writer, an enlightened reformist and chronicler of a particular way of understanding life and enduring the years, political departure and exile. At some point, perhaps he thought that the banishment was transitory, but as time goes by, he naturally assumes the impossibility of return. Instead of boasting of patriotism or gigantic effort not to succumb, he prefers to revitalize his national ties through writing from a distance.

A new approach to the «Memorias para la vida de Juan de Malara» by Juan Nepomuceno González de León

2023-10-16T11:14:52+00:00

Among the few texts we have today by Juan Nepomuceno González de León (1745-1781), librarian of the Colombina Library and supernumerary of the Royal Academy of Belles Lettres of Seville, the Memorias para la vida de Juan de Malara must have formed part of his projects undertaken for the promotion of the emerging literary historiography. The document, which is included among the Papeles del Conde del Águila, however, is an inaccurate copy of another manuscript with the same bio-bibliographical sketch, this one unsigned and consequently attributed to González de León. This article proposes an updated analysis of both testimonies, with the aim of duly tracing their context and thus contributing to a more precise approach to the figure of González de León, who is still largely unknown.

Alonso de Ercilla: Author, character and sentimental hero. Biography and nation in the 18th and 19th centuries

2023-10-07T12:34:56+00:00

During the 18th and 19th centuries, Ercilla and his literary contributions became internationally acclaimed, as evidenced by the proliferation of editions, translations and periodicals dedicated to the author across Europe. These works gave a significant prominence to the poet’s life, a subject of interest in the emerging literary landscape of the late Enlightenment era. More specifically, they explored Ercilla's dual identity as both an author and a character within his own narrative, with implications for the reception of his literary work. This paper examines three key literary themes through the biographies of Ercilla published during this period: the longstanding debate between poetry and history, the quest for a national poetry, and the concept of biographical authenticity, which gradually emerged as the standard of poetic excellence during the 19th century.

Genius and Character: The Author and Literary History in Dieze’s Annotations

2023-10-07T12:31:43+00:00

Throughout the 18th century, the genre of literary biography was renewed. Collective biographies of poets were written as new national literatures were conceived. These biographies show a tension between characterization and the singularization of each subject; at the same time, they were an ideal space for the codification of a particular authorial conceptions. This paper examines the biographies of Spanish poets which were included in Johann Andreas Dieze’s notes to his translation of Velázquez's Orígenes de la poesía castellana in 1769. The paper contextualizes his biographies in relation to the tradition and sources he followed, the importance of these in the plan of the translation, and the general influence of expressive poetic theories in his treatment of the biography.

New manuscript testimonies in Asturian from the 17th and 18th centuries in the ms. 23319 of the BNE

2024-04-04T16:05:51+00:00

The importance of ms 23,319, recently acquired by the National Library of Spain is highlighted. In addition to containing papers related to Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, the National Library of Spain holds seven manuscript pieces of Asturian philology interest. Five of them are copies of well-known works: the fables of Dido and Aeneas (two fragmentary copies) and of Hero and Leandro by Marirreguera, the romance El Caballu, by Bernaldo de Quirós y Benavides, and the Proclamation of Carlos IV by Xosefa Xovellanos. The present work intends to place and show the interest of these new testimonies within their respective textual traditions. The other two pieces are unknown. In one of them remarks on the phonetics of Asturian that come from Jovellanos are made and 40 agricultural terms are transcribed and edited in the annex. In the other manuscript a series of 29 seven-syllabic couplets in Asturian are copied. They are also offered in an annex and their connection with traditional songs associated with dance is pointed out.

New contributions on the house inhabited by Goya in Saragossa in 1780-1781, a building by the enlightened architect Agustín Sanz (1765-1767)

2023-11-06T22:39:06+00:00

This article studies, from a historical and architectural point of view, a Saragossa house rebuilt by the enlightened architect Agustín Sanz Alós for the assistant surgeon José Casanova in 1765-1767 and which in 1780-1781 was temporarily inhabited by the illustrious Aragonese painter Francisco de Goya when he settled in the city to participate in the pictorial decoration of the domes and vaults of the circuit of the Holy Chapel of the Temple of Our Lady of the Pillar under the orders of his brother-in-law Francisco Bayeu. The text provides new data and interpretations that shed light on the building's creation process, its subsequent development and its original architectural characteristics, placing special emphasis on its connection with the figure of Goya.

Toledo in the «Lettere d’un vago italiano ad un suo amico» (1759-1764), by the «subtle» Traveler Norberto Caimo

2023-10-31T11:47:11+00:00

The Italian Norberto Caimo visited Toledo in November 1755. His scathing assessment of the city, which was published along with the rest of his journey through Spain and Portugal, with the title Lettere d’un vago italiano ad un suo amico, would be replicated some years later by Antonio Ponz in his Viage de España. Caimo, the «Italian Vago», thus gained an unusual level of prominence despite being practically unknown. In 1962, García Mercadal included only a portion of this journey in his well-known anthology of travelers in Spain, leaving out his stay in Toledo. This article collects this part of his journey from the original edition of the third volume of their Lettere (Milan, 1764), which has never been translated in Spain.

An Unpublished Letter by Feijoo to Antonio José Rodríguez (1741). Study and Edition

2023-10-07T12:10:00+00:00

Benito Feijoo’s preserved epistolary continues to be enriched thanks to recent discoveries. This paper, one more contribution to the already known epistolary heritage, presents a letter sent by Feijoo to the Cistercian monk Antonio José Rodríguez in 1741. Before the transcription of the letter, a brief introductory study is proposed, which contains, first of all, an approximation to Feijoo's correspondence, as well as the identification of the manuscript that reproduces the letter and the setting in which this document is found. The following section is dedicated to drawing a superficial portrait of the addressee of the letter, Antonio José Rodríguez. The characteristics of the relationship between these two monks are explained below and the orders to which one and the other belonged are contrasted. Finally, after describing the original source, this brief Feijonian letter is critically edited.